Eneco Tour 2015
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Eneco Tour 2015 stage 7: Quinziato wins at cobbled Wall, overall win Wellens
Door Martijn Ophorst The closing stage of the Eneco Tour is a kind of Tour of Flanders with 17 hills. Manuel Quinziato is in the early break and he proves to be strongest. He attacks with 5 kilometres left and soloes to victory at the Wall of Geraardsbergen. Leader…
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Eneco Tour 2015 Stage 6: Brilliant Tim Wellens solos to win and leader's jersey
Door Martijn Ophorst In 208.6 kilometres, stage 6 is the langest of the 2015 Eneco Tour. In rainy conditions in the Ardennes the race is nothing short of spectacular with Greg Van Averamet attacking with 70 km's left. Spectacle until the end with young Tim Wellens…
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Eneco Tour 2015 Stage 5: Le Bon wins spectacle race, Kelderman leader
Door Martijn Ophorst Stage 5 is a 179.6 kilometres ride with 27 climbs in the south of the Netherlands. More or less the Eneco-version of the Amstel Gold Race. Le Bon and Van Baarle bring an early break home, albeit with a tiny margin. Le Bon is escapes in the…
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Eneco Tour 2015 Stage 4: Jos van Emden powers to win and overall lead
Door Martijn Ophorst The Eneco Tour's ITT is on a flat track of 14 kilometres. Home-rider Jos van Emden blasts to the win, with his team-mate Wilco Kelderman finishing second. Van Emden is the new leader, while Kelderman is the best GC rider in the overall.
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Eneco Tour 2015 Stage 3: Boonen wins in home country
Door Martijn Ophorst Stage 3 in the Eneco Tour takes the riders in 172 kilometres from Beveren to Ardooie and it's there good old Tom Boonen blasts to victory in the bunch sprint. Young Dutchman Jesper Asselamn holds on to the leader's jersey, albeit with a 1 second margin.
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Eneco Tour 2015 Stage 2: Sprint-victory Greipel, Asselman new leader
Door Martijn Ophorst The riders race in circles around the Dutch town of Breda. Just like yesterday, home-rider Jesper Asselman is in the break of the day and he makes good use of the Golden Kilometre to catapult himself into the overall lead.The race itself boils…
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Eneco Tour 2015 Stage 1: Viviani sprints to victory and overall lead
Door Martijn Ophorst The opening-stage of the Eneco Tour is a 183 kilometres spin through the flat fields of Friesland in the north of the Netherland. That not only sounds like a sprint-stage, the ride explodes in a battle between fast men. Elia Viviani is fastest,…
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Eneco Tour 2015: Riders
Door Martijn Ophorst Gilbert, Van Avermaet, Boom, Boonen Terpstra, Greipel, Spilak and title-holder Tim Wellens - the Eneco Tour 2015 brings an appealing startlist to the table. Find all contenders of the seven-day stage in the Netherlands and Belgium on Cyclingstage.com.
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Eneco Tour 2015: The Route
Door Martijn Ophorst Eneco Tour 2015 starts on Monday, August 10, and is set to finish on Sunday, August 16th. The race offers a mix of sprint stages, time trialing and short and steep climbs. The three stages in the closing weekend are stage-race versions of Amstel…
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Eneco Tour 2015: Favourites
Door Martijn Ophorst The decision in Eneco Tour will come from the ITT and the three hilly stages in the closing weekend. Cyclingstage.com brings you the major contenders.
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Eneco Tour 2015 Route stage 1: Bolsward - Bolsward
Door Harmen Lustig Monday, August 10, 2015 - The Eneco Tour is set to to start in the far north of the Netherlands. Stage 1 leads in 183.5 kilometres from Bolsward to Bolsward. After two big rounds through the Frisian fields a local circuit of 20 kilometres closes…
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Eneco Tour 2015 Route stage 2: Breda - Breda
Door Harmen Lustig Tuesday, August 11, 2015 - The 2nd stage of the Eneco Tour starts and finishes in Breda, a town in the south of the Netherlands. In 175.1 kilometres riders confront three different laps in and around Breda.
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Eneco Tour 2015 Route stage 3: Beveren - Ardooie
Door Harmen Lustig Wednesday, August 12, 2015 – After two Dutch stages, stage 3 in the 2015 Eneco Tour is battled out on Belgian soil. The riders leave Beveren and head in 171.9 kilometres to Ardooie. Just like the first two stage, this one should be for the sprinters.
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Eneco Tour 2015 Route stage 4: ITT Hoogerheide
Door Harmen Lustig Thursday, August 13, 2015 - The individual time trial in the Eneco Tour is a 14 kilometres ride with start and finish in the Dutch village Hoogerheide.
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Eneco Tour 2015 Route stage 5: Riemst - Sittard/Geleen
Door Harmen Lustig Friday, August 14, 2015 – In the 5th stage of the Eneco Tour the riders head for the hills. The course leads in 179 kilometres from Riemst, Belgium, to Sittard-Geleen, the Netherlands. The finale resembles the Amstel Gold Race.
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Eneco Tour 2015 Route stage 6: Heerlen - Houffalize
Door Harmen Lustig Saturday, August 15, 2015 - In 208.6 kilometres riders head from Heerlen to Houffalize. The 6th is the longest stage in the Eneco Tour and with eighteen hills and the Ardennes as a backdrop, today's route is a stage race version of Liege-Bastogne-Liege.
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Eneco Tour 2015 Route stage 7: St.Pieters-Leeuw - Geraardsbergen
Door Harmen Lustig Sunday, August 16, 2015 - After the 207 kilometres version of Liege-Bastogne-Liege on Saturday, the last stage of the Eneco Tour brings a 188.6 kilometres variant of the Tour of Flanders. Starting in St.Pieters-Leeuw and finishing on the Wall of…